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[quote=Anonymous]Probably more going into trades.

There's likely also a demographic shift too. People ignore younger demographics are increasingly non-white and I can easily see a clear pattern of, say, Latino men of recent immigrant heritage following their fathers into trade while their sisters go off to local state schools for nursing degrees. Trades pay VERY well these days. A skilled tradesman can easily out earn many white collar positions that require college degrees.

When you look at the actual data the picture is probably not quite so complicated nor sad.

I seriously doubt there's a decline in white boys from educated upper middle class families going to college. It's most likely the same.

Last but not least, boys and girls are different. No matter what the woke progressives want to claim these days. I grew up back in the 80s and 90s and people were already talking about broad differences in learning approaches and intuition that made more boys better suited for trade related occupations while the academic track came easier to girls (as cohorts, of course, not applicable equally to every single boy versus every single girl). There was all this talk about how this wasn't a problem when the US economy was dominated by farms and then later industry, but with the shift to a service and knowledge economy it was starting to be more problematic.

But now that a generation has elapsed since the first of these woe is me boys aren't going to college articles, in reality it hasn't been meaningful.

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